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Bahrain: Arbitrary detention / fear of torture

By Amnesty International, 2 April 1997, Index number: MDE 11/006/1997

Ahlam al-Sayyid Mahdi, aged 19; Amal Ahmad Rabi', aged 19, both university students; Maryam Ahmad Bilway, aged 18; Laila 'Abd al-Nabi Rabi', aged 16, secondary school student: The four young women named above were among a number of people arrested after a demonstration in the village of Sitra on 26 March 1997. They have been detained incommunicado since their arrest and there are fears they may be subject to torture or ill-treatment in custody.